Light Supper Is Cooling on a Hot Night
(See Recipes Below)
Keep Kitchens Coot
Nothing makes the family’s appe
tite wane quite so quickly as a meal
that makes the
house uncomfort
ably warm dur
ing hot weather.
A cool and com
fortable room, set
with a table that
suggests coolness,
wOl be much more comfortable all
the way around.
Mother would do best to plan a
meal that is nourishing but not too
hearty. The main dish and vegeta
bles may be warm, but dessert and
•alad should be icy cold to suggest
that summer was kept in mind dur
ing the planning of the menu.
If the bulk of the actual cooking
is done during the cool mornings,
then the kitchen can retain some
semblance of coolness during the
evening hours. Such things as cook
ing filling for pies, making cookies
or cake or cooking vegetables for a
salad can be prepared before the
sun rises high in the sky and sends
the temperature to the highest rungs
of the thermometer.
Main entrees, if broiled, will also
help during hot weather. They take
only a few minutes to cook, like this
low-point grill:
Hamburger Grill.
(Serves 6)
1 pound hamburger
K onion, grated, If desired
1 teaspoon salt
H teaspoon pepper
4 slices bacon
2 large bananas
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Combine meat, onion, salt and
pepper. Mix well. Form Into 4
cakes about Me
inch thick. Ar
I range strips of
bacon on broiling
rack. Broil slow
ly until brown,
turning when nec
essary. Drain on
unglazed paper while other food
broils. Arrange meat cakes on rack.
Brush bananas with lemon Juice and
place alongside meat. Broil until
meat is browned. To serve, ar
range hamburgers on Individual
serving plates. Top each with a
strip of bacon and place broiled ba
nana slice at each side. Potato
chips and tomato cucumber salad
may be served with the grill.
Chicken is delectable when cooked
a la king, but it’s invitingly cool
when served molded. Then it can
be sliced and served garnished with
quartered hard-boiled eggs and to
mato wedges:
Molded Chicken a la King.
(Serves 8)
4 tablespoons butter or substitute
K cup chopped green pepper
H cup sliced mushrooms
1 cup milk, scalded
H cup hot chicken stock
$4 cup chopped pimientp
1 cup diced cooked chicken
4 egg yolks
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon gelatin
2 tablespoons cold water
Melt butter or substitute. Then
add green pepper and mushrooms
Lynn Says
Perfect Salads: You’ll like or
anges sliced or sectioned and
rolled in shredded coconut on let
tuce cups.
Peach or apricot halves placed
on top of shredded cabbage which
is rich In vitamin C is a delightful
salad for hot weather eating.
Blend mayonnaise with peach
juice or sour cream for a really
smooth dressing.
Odd bits of meat go well riding
the tops of vegetable salads.
Shred or cube them and extend
with bits of cheese, if necessary.
Thousand Island dressing whicn
is so excellent on quarters of
chilled lettuce is even better if it
has a few wedges of meaty ripe
olives in it.
Lynn Chamber*’ Point-Saving
Menus
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•Hamburger Grill with Bananas
and Bacon
Jellied Vegetable Aspic
Green Beans
Cream-Cheese-Whole-Wheat
Bread Sandwiches
Beverage Lemon Chiffon Pie
•Recipe given.
and cook slowly until tender but not
browned. Blend in milk, stock, pl
miento and chicken. Beat egg yolks,
add lemon juice and pour a little of
the liquid over the chicken mixture,
stirring constantly. Stir egg yolks
into the rest of the chicken mixture
and cook over boiling water for 5
minutes, still stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and add gelatin
which has been soaked in cold wa
ter for 5 minutes. Turn into a mold
and chill until set. Unmold and
garnish with hard-cooked eggs quar
tered, tomato wedges and parsley.
One of the Important points in
cooking flsh is to avoid overcooking.
Here is a dish that can be turned
out in less than half an hour:
Mackerel With Bacon and Onions.
(Serves 4)
% pound cleaned fillets of mackerel
Salt and pepper
1 cup sliced onions
4 tablespoons butter or drippings
H cup soft bread crumbs
2 slices crisp bacon, broiled
Separate fillets and arrange in
greased, shallow baking dish. Sprin
kle with salt and pepper. Saute on
ions gently in butter until tender but
not browned. Turn ->ut on flsh,
sprinkle with crumbs and top with
bacon. Bake in a hot (400-degree)
oven until flsh is done and crumbs
are browned, about 15 minutes.
Hot evenings sometimes call for
hearty main dish salads. Use a good
protein food as a base so that it will
be nourishing enough even for so-o
big appetites. Here are two good
suggestions:
Baked Bean and Egg Salad.
(Serves 6)
1 medium sized can of baked beans
4 sweet pickles, chopped
3 hard-cooked eggs, sliced (re
serve 6 slices for garnishing)
Hi cup chopped celery
2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
1 teaspoon salt
3 to 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
Chill beans until cold. Add the
remaining ingre
dients In order
given, mixing
carefully. Ar
range on nests of
lettuce and gar
nish with sliced.
hard-cooked egg and parsley.
Salmon Salad.
(Serve* 6 to 8)
6 hard-cooked eggs
I pound salmon, cooked or canned,
shredded
1 medium green pepper, chopped
% cup shredded cabbage
Ml cup chopped celery
2 tablespoons grated onion
12 slices chopped sweet pickle
3 tablespoons prepared yellow mus
tard
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
After salmon is shredded mix with
chopped egg whites, green pepper,
cabbage and celery, grated onion
and pickles. Mash the egg yolks
and blend well with mustard, vine
gar, sugar, salt and pepper. Com
bine the two mixtures, blending
thoroughly. Serve in cups of let
tuce, garnished with radishes and
whole s’ices of pickle.
French Fried Shrimp.
(Serves 6)
2 cups corn Hakes
1 egg, slightly beaten
2 cups rooked jumbo shrimp
Roll corn flakes into fine crumbs.
Dip shrimp in egg and then in corn
flake crumbs. Fry in deep fat until
brown (365 degrees F.) Serve plain
or with tartar sauce.
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^ CLARK M'MEEKIN
TOE STORY THI S FAR: While voyag
lag from England to America, Lark Shan
non's ship goes down. She Is saved by
Galt Withe, a hound servant, bat made
prisoner al the Inn to which be takes her.
She escapes, and Is found by her sweet
heart, David North, who Is disguised as a
gipsy to get a line on Dr. Matson, a
•lave pirate. Larh and Galt fall Into the
hands of Dr. Matson, but escape at nlfht,
and Anally arrive In Norfolk where Lark
eapects to meet David. She meets him
at a state fair, with Mara Mastlngs, to
whom she understands he Is engaged. At
the fair Lark rides Red Raskall In a rare
—the horse she had managed to hobbit
after the shipwreck, and wins the race.
Dr. Matson la at the fair, a prisoner.
CHAPTKR XX
Minnie said, “Damn your mean
little stinking soul, Plascutt
Dawes," and then, with great com
posure and good nature, paid out the
fine which the judge imposed for
contempt of court. "It was worth
It," she said loudly, "cheap at dou
ble the price!" She winked at Lark
and squeezed back into her arm
chair. For a moment there was
general laughter, and the judge had
to rap again for attention.
"I’m not done with you yet, Miss
Buxtree," Plascutt’s lawyer said se
verely, and Minnie, with a gusty
sigh heaved herself again to her feet.
She was enjoying herself thoroughly
and had engaged the sympathy of
the court room. That was very
plain.
The lawyer consulted his client
for a moment and then said, "Miss
Shannon did want to collect the re
ward money, didn't she? She was
eager and greedy for that, I have
been told.”
“Greedy for that!” Minnie mim
icked his tone to perfection. "And
who, on God’s green earth, if they’d
lost every stick and stitch of their
possessions in a shipwreck, wouldn’t
be glad enough to collect a just
debt due them? I wish you, your
self, had been through that God
awful storm and that wreck. Mister,
I do wish it now!”
Minnie played her trump card
now. "How many Greatways slaves
you got now. Mr Dawes? How many
horses? Maybe it’s slipped your
mind that ftiat detail was very clear
ly stated by Mr. Terraine. He said, *
‘so help me. I’ll bet all my posses
sions, saving my daughter, my
slaves, and my horse-flesh, on this
race between Lancer and Thunder
Boy.’ Lancer and Thunder Boy, mind
you. Them two horses was the im
ported racers in the original bet.
Later, when Mr. Terraine an’ all
the rest of us thought that Lancer
had gone down aboard the Tem
pora, Mr. Terraine picked up a fur
rin horse named Black Jig, an' Mr.
Dawes put the screws on Mr. Ter
raine and forced hiiji to follow this
same bet through, against his own
better Judgment and that of the
country-side, since 'twas a well
known fack that Black Jig was an
unsound beast!"
"We remember the race," Judge
Tavner said. "Most of us here to
day witnessed it." ,
“You know the beast broke down
In the stretch,” Minnie continued,
“but Squire Terraine. being a sport
ing gent of the first water, paid the
price. And that price didn’t Include
horse-flesh. What I want to know,
and this court wants to know, is how
many horses of Squire Terraine’s
you got in your stables this min
ute, Mr. Dawes?” Minnie fired the
question point-blank at Plascutt.
Plascutt said hastily, "Judge Tav
ner, this woman has nothing in writ
ing to bear out her statement. The
wager was a personal agreement be
tween me and Jarrod Terraine. I
see no reason to re-open the points
covered in the bet. That it was
made and carried out in good faith,
I think has been proven by past
events. Because I did not wish to
press my advantage as winner, I
allowed Jarrod Terraine to make
what disposition he chose of his
slaves and his horses.”
Minnie said. "That man’s twistin’
the truth, Ben Tavner, honest to
God, he is. Jarrod Terraine’s down
right claim was that Lancer (Red
Raskall, we call him) couid beat
Thunder Boy. And that’s what hap
pened, a in’ it? Looks to me like
Squire Terraine could claim all his
lands back if there's any sense in
lawin’. S’pose i Just write him now,
out there in Kaintuck and tell him
how matters stand; that Lancer did
beat Thunder Boy. fair an’ square on
the county circuit track. I could
take my pen in hand mighty easy
...” She glanced slyly at Plascutt.
Mr. Dawes said quickly, "I have
decided, Judge Tavner, to withdraw
my claim to the horse and to cease
litigation against Miss Shannon and
Mr Withe.”
“Just a moment, Mr. Dawes.” the
Judge said. “It is my considered
opinion that, in the ends of justice,
the case must be continued. In re
gard to this horse—’’
“I don't give a damn about the
horse," Plascutt cut in irritably. “If
I had him I'd put him behind a plow!
But if you think you’re going to open
up a bet that’s been settled and
done—”
“This court has no Jurisdiction
over any wagering, Mr. Dawes.
That, as you sa;, is past and done
with. But I resent your tone, sir,
and fine you five pounds for con
tempt. Now will you be seated?"
Plascutt sat down.
“WeU,'' Minnie said proudly, "I
did set a match to a bonfire, didn’t
I? What happens next. Ben Tav
ner?”
The judge frowned. "This court
accepts the responsibility of dispos
ing of a valuable piece of horse
flesh.”
Lark was on her feet instantly.
"Judge Tavner,” she said. “Galt
Withe and I had every firm intention
of returning the horse to Squire Jar
rod Terraine. We love Red Raskail
dearly and can not accept Mr,
Dawes’ claim. All of you heard
him, just now, threaten to put him
behind a plow! Why Red Raskall's
a thoroughbred! If you could get in
touch with Mr. Terraine in Ken
tucky—”
Judge Tavner said formally,
"Miss Shannon, it has been clearly
shown by Mr. Dawes that Squire
Terraine, by a very reckless writ
ten agreement, has forfeited all his
possessions. Whatever may have
been his spoken intentions as to his
slaves and horses, this agreement,
held by Mr. Dawes does give him
claim to the horse you found, and
the court must recognize it as such."
“Just a minute, please, Judge.”
Minnie was on her feet again. "What
about them ’finders-keepers’ laws?
Why wouldn’t they come into this
case?”
"I assume you mean the Mari
time Salvage Laws, Minnie. This
court does have Admiralty Rights
which I think are clearly applicable
here. When we have finished hear
ing both sides of the case I have
She lit a fire of pine chips.
every intention of bringing them up
and explaining them to the jury.
Mr. Dawes, it is now in order for
your lawyer to plead. ...”
Mr. Dawes’ lawyer spoke with
great conviction but apparently
made little impression on the jury
who had already been prejudiced
against his client
After he had finished, the Judge
sent the sergeant for a certain vol
ume and studied it for some mo
ments.
Minnie said, ‘ Read it aloud, Ben.
We’d all like mighty much to hear
just what it says.”
The judge cleared his throat and
began:
** *1. The salvage services must
have been rendered within the juris
diction of this Admiralty. . . .’ ”
Minnie nodded vigorously and
smiled encouragingly at Lark.
“ ‘2. There must be no legal duty
on the party of the salvor to render
assistance.’ ”
‘‘All right, Ben, go ahead!” Min
nie’s excitement had spread to the
jury, who were listening attentively.
“ ‘3. The property must have been
in peril when rescued by the sal
vor.’ ”
“It was, Ben, that poor horse
was a-sinking fast in the quicksand
and would have been a goner if
Lark hadn’t histed him with a spar.”
The judge looked over his specta
cles at Lark. "That's perfectly true,
sir,” she said.
“And lastly, the fourth point:
'The services must have been suc
cessful.’ ”
“Just take a look out the window,
Ben, and you’ll see the horse hale
an' hearty as the day he was
weaned." Minnie beamed.
“ ‘If these conditions be satis
fied,’ ” the judge continued to quote,
“ ’salvage claims take priority of all
others against the property saved,
and give the salvor a maritime lien
upon such property, enforceable by
action in rem.’ ”
"What's 'a lien’?” Minnie wanted
to know. "Say it in plain English,
Judge.”
"A lien,” Ben Tavner explained
with gracious condescension, "is de
fined by the dictionary as being,
‘right to retain possession of proper
ty till debt due in respect of It Is
discharged * **
“So Lark gets to keep this horse,
Judge?” Minnie asked in great ex
citement. "That’s what it do mean,
don’t it?”
"Under the somewhat peculiar cir
cumstances, and in view of the fact
that Jarrod Terraine is certainly not
able to reimburse her for the horse,
I should opine, and do hereby de
cree, that since the horse was clear
ly his at the time of the wreck
which preceded the race, it now be
longs to Lark Shannon, to have and
to hold, as her true and indisputable
possession, in the sight of all men.”
The court room rang with ap
plause as Lark rose to her feet and
bowed. Sherry Farrington smiled
across at her and her grandmother
sent a message that a week from to
day she would come calling.
When the crowd had melted away
after many congratulations Lark
said, "Oh. Galt, he’s ours. Really
ours, now!”
The scarlet leaves danced and
whirled on the floor of the turn pike.
Lark had closed the shutters of the
toll-gate house and locked them tight
against the prying wind.
She had lit a fire of pine chips
and filled the blue stoneware bowls
with bittersweet and Michaelmas
daisies. The simple furniture was
scrubbed and oiled, the pewter
shined and the cups and napkins
were laid out. . . . And it was only
nine o’clock in the morning. Seven
hours before Madame Farrington
could possibly come to call!
Cupsie was churning in the dairy
shed. She called, "Buttah done
come. Miss Lark, you tole me say
so when buttah comes.”
Lark laid aside the bowl of frost
sweetened fox grapes she was pick
ing over, and went through the dog
trot from the kitchen to the shed.
The boards here were white from
scrubbing, clean-smelling and pun
gent with the faint fragrant sourness
of butter-cream.
"See, honey?” Cupsie pulled up
the long wooden dasher, with its
blue-white patterns lacing its smooth
brown length. Clusters of butter
flakes clung to the plunger in gran
ules and rosettes.
"Don't churn so fast, Cupsie,
you’re slopping the cream out!”
‘Yas’m.” Cupsie looked out of the
big square window to the ten-acre
lot where her newest swain was
turning over the lumps of rich brown
Virginia loam. The plaint of a mel
ancholy song came to them. . . .
"Lawd Jesus, lissen to de lam’s a
cryin’,” the sharp hi-yi of the other
field hands when an unwary rabbit
darted from its haven in the sur
rounding scrub, was caught, whirled
around the Negro’s head, and slung
into a pile, dead, ready for the fry
pan, come suppertime.
"Dem niggahs shore has a ’mira
tion for Marse Galt,” Cupsie said
tentatively.
"You’re slopping that good
cream,” Lark said briefly.
"You’se sorter edgy, ain’t ye?”
Cupsie asked companionably. "Ain’t
no need to be scairt of Ma’am Far
rington. I’se bin up to de quarters
ob Sheriden an’ kin tell ye all about
her. Ole Ma’am Farrington, dey say
she am 'bout de out-footenest lady
’roun’ here.”
"I’m not interested,” LarK said.
“Cupsie, mind your churning. Don’t
let me have to speak to you again!”
“No, ma’am.” Cupsie was com
pletely unperturbed. “Ye bettah let
me fix you up a bit o’ lunch. Miss
Lark, an’ take time fur a lay-down
to settle yoah tempah. Ye gonna
crimp yo’ haih, ain’t ye? Ma’am
Farrington’s got sharp eyes. Ain’t
no lady roun’ here don’ toiler de
style. . . . Miss Pretty-Anne Taylor
has a two-piece corset an’ strings
herself up to de bed—pos.’ ”
“My hair looks funny crimped."
“1 ain’t a-sayin’ ye ain’t got purty
hair an’ dat it don’ look good plain,
but Mistress Mara puts hers up on
lil’ rags ebry night ob de worl’.
Marse David he laks crimD hair an’
mos’ folks do. Ole Ma’am Farring
ton laugh hersel’ into a fit, goin’
home from drinkin’ a dish ob tea
wid a gal wid straight hair.”
“I can't help it if she does, and
what's more, Cupsie, I don’t believe
she does. She told me Mistress
Dawes had caught her in the barn,
dosing the horses. She’s not a fan
cifled old lady at all.”
"Sometimes she is, an’ sometimes
she ain’t,” Cupsie said judiciously.
“She kin be plain as Satan’s old
heel when she wants to, but when
dey have a ball up at Shcriden she
decks herself up in lace spetiskirts
an’ emeral’s an’ di’mon’s an’ all.
Dat’s what I hear tell. She got a’
eye for a han’som gent too, spite o’
being one foot in de grabe. I heerd
she tole some one Marse Galt wuz
de bes’ lookin’ young mister-some
body she’s seen for a coon’s age.”
When Lark didn’t give Cupsie an
answer the little darkey wasn’t dis
couraged but went on. “She right
too, jes' look out de winder at Marse
Galt a-stridin’ dat Raskall out dar.
Dey de pretties’ pair ob critturs I
ever did see. Look lak a' up-an’
comin’ man lak him wouldn’ be so
hin’most ’bout findin’ hisself a wife.
Mebbe he shy, Miss Lark an’ need a
lil’ hint. What you t'ink, honey?”
"Cupsie, I can’t think when you
talk so much!" Lark laughed.
"No’m. But when I laks a pus
son, I jes' plain-out can’t help sayia’
so. I never did coddle to Mistab
David Nawth, though I ’spec he am
rich, rich as this here buttah cream.
Him an' Miss Mara's a good mate,
tffen ye ax me.”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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• • •
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Don’t be annoyed by a food chop
per that won’t stay firmly an
chored to the table. Put a piece of
sandpaper, gritty side up, on the
table before screwing the chopper
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—•—
Two spools nailed to the wall
about two inches apart makes a
good place to hang the broom (up
side down).
—•—
When boiling potatoes for mash
ing, cut them as for french fries.
Much time and fuel will be saved.
—•—
An old turkish towel is good for
removing dust from upholstered
furniture. Wet the towel, wring it
dry, and spread over piece to be
cleaned. Beat with a broomstick.
Escaping dust clings to the towel.
—•—
If brown sugar becomes lumpy,
place a damp cloth in the jar with
the sugar and cover it tightly.
—•—
To keep slip-covers new looking,
iron them on the wrong side.
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Boil a cracked dish for about
three-quarters of an hour in
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crack in the dish will become al
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—•—
Cut blotting paper to fit the bot
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Bill Was Just Survivin'
And Doing Good Job of It
The offhand quality of the Ne
gro serviceman’s courage is neat
ly summed up in an incident re
ported by a fellow who participat
ed in the second battle of the
Philippines, last fall. His ship, the
Lexington, picked up some of the
crew of the Princeton after she
went down, among them a Negro
mess attendant. .
The rescued man was sitting in
the wardroom pantry, dripping
and drinking coffee, when an old
friend of his happened by.
“Why, it’s Bill!” the friend ex
claimed. “What you doing here?”
Bill’s answer was precise and
modest. “Ah’s survivin’,” he said.
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• • •
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requires 1% yards of 35 or 39-inch ma
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